Emily Browning Quotes
After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.
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I secretly love the song 'No More Tears.' It's my go-to karaoke song that I do with all my friends.
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I don't know why the leaders of social networks have overlooked the idea of rules. Real-life behavior is becoming more reflective of social media instead of vice versa, and that's a dangerous thing.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
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After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.
